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Cottages of Messrs. Edgar and Hansen, We-que-ton-sing – Vintage Wall Art

Cottages of Messrs. Edgar and Hansen, We-que-ton-sing, [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Cottages of Messrs. Edgar and Hansen, We-que-ton-sing, [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The cottages shown here belonged to two summer residents, Messrs. Edgar and Hansen, at Wequetonsing, a lakeside resort on Little Traverse Bay in northern Michigan near Harbor Springs. Wealthy families from Chicago and other midwestern cities built seasonal cottages in such places to escape city heat, and many resorts of this kind grew up along the Great Lakes in the late 1800s. The Detroit Publishing Company photographed resorts like this around 1900 to 1905 to promote travel by rail and steamer, so the picture also records how leisure living was presented to the public at the time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes199" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042452. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Michigan--Wequetonsing.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69661

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